Two new reports are now available from the DLF website.

1. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment
(December 2001). A report by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L.
Palmer, Tonyia J. Tidline http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html

2. Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT —
December 19, 2001 (December 2001). A draft proposal developed by Harvard
University Library as part of its Mellon e-journal archiving project.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf


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Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html). As the scholarly
information environment changes, so do the needs, expectations, and
behaviors of users. Assessing and responding to those changes is essential
for the academic library so that it may continue in support of the scholarly
mission. The authors of this report have formally examined how humanities
scholars conduct and collate their research. The study was based on a small
sample of scholars; nonetheless, the results are powerfully suggestive of
ways in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop in a rapidly
changing environment. In particular, the findings emphasize how important it
is for libraries to chart their evolutionary course in close consultation
with scholarly user communities. This study results from the fruitful
cross-fertilization between the scholar concerned with aspects of
information science and the librarian concerned with delivering operational
information services.


Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT —
December 19, 2001 http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf The
purpose of the Harvard University E-Journal Archive is to preserve the
significant intellectual content of journals independent of the form in
which that content was originally delivered in order to assure that this
content will be available to the scholarly community for the indefinite
future. Functionally, the archive is designed to render text and still
images and other formats as practical with no significant loss in
intellectual content. The archive reserves the right to freely manipulate
the internal format of the manifestation over time as long as the plain
meaning of the intellectual content is preserved. The framework for
discussing the architecture and operation of the archive is provided by the
Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. Under the OAIS
model, material from a content provider is transmitted to the archive in a
form called a Submission Information Package (SIP). The format of the SIP
acceptable to the Harvard archive is described normatively by this
specification.